media creation tool

Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool is now serving Windows 11 installation media that includes the May 12, 2026 cumulative update KB5089549, letting users create USB installers for Windows 11 25H2 build 26200.8457 and 24H2 build 26100.8457 without first installing an older image and then patching...

Microsoft’s official Windows 11 Media Creation Tool is now serving installation media that includes the May 12, 2026 cumulative update KB5089549, bringing clean USB installs for Windows 11 version 25H2 to build 26200.8457 and version 24H2 to build 26100.8457. That sounds like housekeeping, but...

Microsoft’s April 2026 Patch Tuesday arrived with the usual mix of security fixes, quality improvements, and a few headaches for administrators, but the bigger story for many Windows users is now happening one step earlier in the deployment chain. Microsoft has updated the Windows 11 Media...

Microsoft’s April 2026 servicing wave is doing more than just patching Windows 11. It is also quietly improving one of the most important deployment tools in the Windows ecosystem: the Media Creation Tool. According to Microsoft’s own April client image documentation and the KB5083769 servicing...

This product listing appears to bundle a pre-made bootable USB drive marketed as “Windows 11 Bootable USB Installation Media,” but that wording should be read carefully. Microsoft’s official guidance is clear that the trusted way to create installation media is through the Media Creation Tool on...

The way you download and create installation media for Windows 11 Pro matters more now than it did a year ago — Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool (MCT) has quietly shifted how it packages images, and that change, together with persistent hardware checks, licensing quirks and third‑party utilities...

Microsoft has quietly adjusted the Windows 11 installation experience: the official Media Creation Tool (MCT) and the ISO images it builds are now packaging a more recent Patch Tuesday cumulative baseline, meaning freshly created installation media often include the latest cumulative security...

Microsoft has quietly updated the Media Creation Tool so newly created Windows 11 installation media now ship much closer to the latest Patch Tuesday baseline — meaning fewer post‑install updates and a faster, more reliable clean‑install path for both consumers and IT professionals. Background /...

Microsoft has quietly changed the behavior of its official Windows 11 installation media generator so that freshly created ISOs and USB installers now contain a more up-to-date cumulative baseline, meaning new clean installs will typically require far fewer large post‑install updates than they...

Microsoft has quietly changed how the official Windows 11 Media Creation Tool (MCT) builds installation media: instead of packaging an older baseline image and forcing freshly installed systems through many months of large cumulative downloads, the tool’s backend now pulls a more recent Patch...

Google’s Gemini is quietly testing a feature called “Import AI chats” that — if it ships as shown in leaks — would let users upload exported conversation archives from other chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and others) and continue those threads inside Gemini without losing prior context or...

A growing clutch of Windows Insiders and power‑user tools are reporting that Windows 11 ISO downloads are failing — and that the popular Rufus utility may have been deliberately hamstrung by changes on Microsoft’s download endpoints. The situation is messy: error messages that reference “Some...

Microsoft has quietly changed how the Media Creation Tool (MCT) builds Windows 11 installation media: instead of packaging an older baseline image and forcing freshly installed systems to run through months of large cumulative updates, the tool’s backend now pulls a more recent Patch Tuesday...

Microsoft has quietly changed the behavior of its long‑running Media Creation Tool (MCT): the official Windows 11 installer generator is now shipping images that include the latest Patch Tuesday cumulative baseline, meaning freshly created USB media will often require far fewer post‑install...

Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool has quietly become a more practical option for clean Windows 11 installs — and not by cosmetic change, but because Microsoft has shifted which backend image the tool downloads so freshly created media land closer to the current patched baseline. Background For...

Microsoft has quietly adjusted the Windows 11 Media Creation Tool so the media it builds now pulls a more up‑to‑date Windows 11 image—aligning installer payloads with recent Patch Tuesday updates—and has simultaneously closed a compatibility regression that briefly broke the tool on some hosts...

Microsoft has quietly adjusted two parts of the Windows maintenance story that many users take for granted: the official Windows 11 Media Creation Tool now pulls fresher, Patch‑Tuesday‑level images (reducing the need for large post‑install updates), and Windows 11 includes a powerful, built‑in...

Ao executar uma "Ferramenta de Criação de Mídia" para instalar o Windows, independentemente do tamanho do pen drive (o meu tem 128 GB), duas partições são criadas. Uma de 32 GB onde a instalação está localizada e outra sem nenhum conteúdo atribuído. "Espaço não alocado". Por quê?

If you want a fast, reliable way to install or recover Windows 11, creating a 64‑bit bootable USB is the single most useful tool you can have—and there are two viable, well‑tested paths depending on whether you want simplicity or control. The Chiang Rai Times primer lays out both approaches...

Microsoft’s Foundry catalog has added Mistral Large 3 to Azure’s model roster, bringing a high‑profile, Apache 2.0‑licensed open‑weight frontier model into the managed enterprise stack and shifting the conversation from “can we run open models?” to “how do we run them responsibly at scale.”...